Recently FamilySearch hosted their British Isles Research Seminar, featuring experts on Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English records, both from civil and parish sources. You could attend in person or watch online as the sessions were aired. The FamilySearch folks have now made the individual sessions available for anyone to watch, still free of charge. And…
The Family History Library in Salt Lake City will present a 5-day research seminar on the British Isles beginning Monday, March 13. The brochure lays out their entire schedule. The daily sessions take place in the afternoon, but Friday, March 17, the whole day is devoted to Irish research. What? You say you can’t get to Salt Lake…
Last night at the Lake County (IL) Genealogical Society meeting, Maureen Brady gave an information-packed presentation on doing genealogy in the British Isles. If you have ancestors from the British Isles (loosely defined for our purposes as England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland). Here are…
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